On Aug 3, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
On 8/2/06, Benjamin Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Isn't Linux being used for 3D anyway?
> Not interactive.
> Linux used for Titanic, LOTR, etc in render farms
> AKA Beowulfs
> Big number crunching clusters
> Can't be used design, games, VR
> All design and animation done on Mac or Windows
This is a good set of notes. I wanted to add a comment about design
and animation.
Do you have any suggestions as to where it would fit into the speech
and how it would be part of the flow?
Well, I only mentioned it to modulate Hugh's comment that "all"
design and animation is done on Mac and Windows. I agree that most of
it is, but it seems that Linux isn't unheard of in that world.
Instead of a "no, but" answer to the question, "Isn't Linux being
used for 3D anyway?", we could do a "yes, and" - yes, it's being used
for 3D renders on the backend, and there's some limited use on the
frontend. Maybe more open/better drivers would be appealing to
studios that wanted to use more workstation Linux (but I haven't done
the research on that).
Ben
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